Perry’s Plan
November 16, 2011 3 Comments
Governor Perry; Courtesy of Perry for President
While I’m not Governor Perry’s greatest fan, some of his plans take your breath away.
Mostly, like most conservatives, I have trouble with his immigration policies, and yet, as we should have learned from the McNamara Line, an American Soldier (or cop) is far more effective than a fence (with or without Alligators), and if you’ve got all these illegals, maybe it’s better to educate them than support them forever, so there you go.
But his plan for reforming Washington, that I can unreservedly support.
Fundamental Reform of the Legislative Branch
- Establish a part-time, Citizen Congress, cutting congressional pay in half and allowing them to hold jobs in their states and communities.
- Slash congressional staff budgets and force lawmakers to do more of their own work.
- Criminalize insider trading by members of Congress.
- Amend the Freedom of Information Act to make it apply to Congress and the White House.
Fundamental Reform of the Judiciary
- Nominate judges who respect the Constitution and who will not make law from the bench.
- End life-time appointments to the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary through Constitutional Amendment.
Fundamental Reform of the Executive Branch
Regulatory Reform and Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy
Regulatory Reform
- Halt all pending federal regulations, order an audit of every regulation passed since 2008 and repeal those not affordable, effective and appropriate.
- Pass legislation to automatically end federal regulations unless Congress renews them.
- Require federal agencies to justify every dime every year – including a specified regulatory budget for each agency.
- Develop an online, searchable database of all current federal regulations.
Unless we make a lot of changes in Congress, it will never happen but, it’s a good start on what we need to do.
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I read his plan and its got a lot a good stuff in it. But I would go back a lot further than 2008 on regulation inspection. Ditto for executive orders.
I would, too, say about 1950. But this one comes under somethings (a lot) better than nothing.
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